Thrillers

Thrillers

Character types
-Hero (usually male)
-Victim (usually female)


Tension - emotional engagement, feeling empathy for the victim or protagonist and antipathy for the antagonist.

Specific sub genres- crime at the centre of the narrative  audience develop narrative. genres include:
-The thriller of murderous passions
-The political thriller
-The thriller of acquired identity
-The Psychosomatic thriller
-The thriller of confrontation
-The innocent on-the-run thriller

Themes- good vs evil- conflict derives from binary opposites. Protagonist faces obstacles increases tension and empathy. Narrative development--ensnared by the antagonist.
The protagonist is usually put in ordinary situations in which extraordinary things happen.
Identity e.g.; amnesia, wrong identity, not whom they thought they were, feeling unease about there life.
Surveillance using symbolic props e.g.; windows, screens, mirrors, cameras.
Objectification of female characters OR Femme fatale.
Usually an enigma